UC Santa Cruz
announces that John and Brenda Romero will run a new masters program in
"games and playable media" (i.e., games and games?). Word is they are bringing
both prior experience and industry friends to their curriculum:

Both John
and Brenda Romero also have experience leading well-regarded game programs at
other universities. Brenda Romero served as chair of the Savannah College of Art
and Design's Interactive Design and Game Development department, while John
Romero helped establish the Digital Games Guildhall program at Southern
Methodist University.

As program director at UCSC, Brenda Romero oversees the curriculum and
instructors, teaches and mentors students, and builds connections with companies
in the computer game industry. The program's advisory board features leading
game developers, including Will Wright (Stupid Fun Club), Harvey Smith (Arkane),
Derek Yu (Spelunky), Robin Hunicke (Funomena), Ben Prunty (FTL), and Brian
Schwab (Blizzard).

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Sho wrote on Sep 18, 2013, 15:15:I even kind of liked Daikatana, but I have a soft spot for games that are screwed up while doing interesting things (my favorite is Trespasser). What Daikatana tried to do with the AI companions was interesting. It was terribly executed, but it was an ambitious idea and interesting, and better implementations of the same idea have proven fun to play (cf. Alyx in Half-Life), so it was a valid direction to go in.

He failed, and he failed in ways that would have been avoidable with less hubris, but the ego also did make him focus on game design features rather than business plans. It's a better failure than making something calculated, bland and shitty.

Iím kind of like you, I didnít mind Daikatana at all, it was fun playing Coop. I think what really killed this game was the bold statement he made about making us his bitch. That really set people off and I personally think people were at that point just out to disprove him by calling the game crap. It was far from crap it had some enjoyable moments.